On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, before getting too high and mighty with users who expect > "select * from table" to produce rows in a predictable order, > you should reflect on the number of places in our regression > tests that assume exactly that ... An assumption that not infrequently breaks. AFAIK, we generally adjust the tests when that happens, rather than considering it a bug in the code. I never thought we did that because there was a secret, undocumented guarantee of order, but to allow different code paths to be tested than we would test if we always specified an order. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
